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  • Five days after the murder, someone claiming to be the killer called the Settee home and named his next victim, a friend of Geraldine's.

    Winnipeg Sun 2010

  • There are none of the wild gestures of youth in a line like this from ‘Blue Settee’, with its leanings towards the metaphysical: ‘This kiss starts high at the nape of the neck/and makes a new map of the world’.

    john harvey | blue monk « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008

  • There are none of the wild gestures of youth in a line like this from ‘Blue Settee’, with its leanings towards the metaphysical: ‘This kiss starts high at the nape of the neck/and makes a new map of the world’.

    February « 2008 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008

  • There are none of the wild gestures of youth in a line like this from ‘Blue Settee’, with its leanings towards the metaphysical: ‘This kiss starts high at the nape of the neck/and makes a new map of the world’.

    john harvey | chet baker « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008

  • ADDED: Regular readers remember Steph from the "Red Settee" portrait series. posted by Ann Althouse at 12:39 PM

    Archive 2007-01-01 Ann Althouse 2007

  • ADDED: Regular readers remember Steph from the "Red Settee" portrait series. posted by Ann Althouse at 12:39 PM

    Lawnscience. Ann Althouse 2007

  • _Persian carpet_ laid up and down R. _Persian carpet_ laid up and down L. _Settee_ set across down L. (Jacobean settee upholstered in tapestry).

    Mr. Pim Passes By 1919

  • _Settee_ (small Queen Anne cane-backed) upholstered in tapestry set up and down stage against and to L. of piano.

    Mr. Pim Passes By 1919

  • Dark Oak Effects and the Sea-Green Frescoes and the Monastery Settee with the Sole-Leather Bottom in it and the corroded Tea-Pot that she had bought for $95 and the Table Spread made from Overall Material with just one Yellow Poppy in the Middle, and they would have 37 different kinds of Duck Fits and say that it was Grand and that her

    People You Know George Ade 1905

  • We camped within five miles of the British border at the Chinese fortlet of Settee, a palisaded camp whose gateway also was hung with heads of dacoits.

    AN AUSTRALIAN IN CHINA Morrison, George Ernest, 1862-1920 1895

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